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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Getting Started with Laravel Installing Laravel Homestead

Matt Wilding
Matt Wilding
4,616 Points
Posted by Matt Wilding
Matt Wilding
4,616 Points

"vagrant up" - problems with 'base' - terminal output included

I'm following the install tutorial to the letter - but having problems with "vagrant up":

My Homestead directory looks like:
drwxr-xr-x  13 mattwilding  staff   442 20 Oct 10:55 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 42 mattwilding  staff  1428 20 Oct 10:56 ..
-rw-r--r--@  1 mattwilding  staff  6148 20 Oct 10:07 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x  13 mattwilding  staff   442 20 Oct 10:55 .git
-rw-r--r--   1 mattwilding  staff    14 20 Oct 09:45 .gitattributes
-rw-r--r--   1 mattwilding  staff    10 20 Oct 09:45 .gitignore
drwxr-xr-x   3 mattwilding  staff   102 20 Oct 10:08 .vagrant
-rw-r--r--   1 mattwilding  staff   358 20 Oct 10:07 Homestead.yaml
drwxr-xr-x   2 mattwilding  staff    68 20 Oct 10:24 Projects
-rw-r--r--   1 mattwilding  staff  4814 20 Oct 10:55 Vagrantfile
-rw-r--r--   1 mattwilding  staff   313 20 Oct 09:45 aliases
-rw-r--r--   1 mattwilding  staff   163 20 Oct 09:45 readme.md
drwxr-xr-x   5 mattwilding  staff   170 20 Oct 09:45 scripts

And the output following the "init" and "up" commands are as follows:

A `Vagrantfile` has been placed in this directory. You are now
ready to `vagrant up` your first virtual environment! Please read
the comments in the Vagrantfile as well as documentation on
`vagrantup.com` for more information on using Vagrant.
āžœ  Homestead git:(master) āœ— vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Box 'base' could not be found. Attempting to find and install...
    default: Box Provider: virtualbox
    default: Box Version: >= 0
==> default: Adding box 'base' (v0) for provider: virtualbox
    default: Downloading: base
An error occurred while downloading the remote file. The error
message, if any, is reproduced below. Please fix this error and try
again.

Couldn't open file /Users/mattwilding/Homestead/base

Has anyone experienced similar, or have any suggestions as to what to try next?

Thanks in advance.

2 Answers

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Matt,

It would appear you've created your own Vagrantfile in the directory as you shouldn't see the below when using Homestead.

A Vagrantfile has been placed in this directory.

I would recommend you double check that your Vagrantfile looks like the below link, if it doesn't checkout a clean copy of homestead again to ensure that the only modified file is Homestead.yaml.

https://github.com/laravel/homestead/blob/master/Vagrantfile

Matt Wilding
Matt Wilding
4,616 Points
Matt Wilding
Matt Wilding
4,616 Points

Many thanks Chris - that did the job perfectly. All up and running now.